Coauthored by an ob/gyn and a noted pregnancy and childbirth expert, Knack Pregnancy Guide is the most reader-friendly, visually informative book ever on the subject. Encompassing all vital pregnancy information, it is organized to meet the needs of today’s busy mothers-to-be. It introduces the latest ideas and research—from prenatal testing to the long-term effects of prenatal nutrition—and provides indispensable advice to mothers at high risk or with pregnancy complications and those with dietary limitations. Sidebars offer quick tips on warning signs, where to find help, and more. Knack Pregnancy Guide is a must for every pregnant mother. • 300 full-color photos • 50 illustrations • Coauthored by an ob/gyn and a leading doula • Organized by trimester • Special pages for dads
Coauthored by an ob/gyn and a noted pregnancy and childbirth expert, Knack Pregnancy Guide is the most reader-friendly, visually informative book ever on the subject. Encompassing all vital pregnancy information, it is organized to meet the needs of today’s busy mothers-to-be. It introduces the latest ideas and research—from prenatal testing to the long-term effects of prenatal nutrition—and provides indispensable advice to mothers at high risk or with pregnancy complications and those with dietary limitations. Sidebars offer quick tips on warning signs, where to find help, and more. Knack Pregnancy Guide is a must for every pregnant mother. • 300 full-color photos • 50 illustrations • Coauthored by an ob/gyn and a leading doula • Organized by trimester • Special pages for dads
This book shows how the UCKG utilizes rituals that are locally meaningful and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance.
In this book, Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed-and changed us-during the pandemic. The unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic, she argues, forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes to work and think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. It also led us as workers to exercise our freedom in ways that were previously unimaginable, as we rethought when and how we allow others to tell us what to do. Based on over 200 interviews, Gershon's book reveals how negotiating these tensions during the pandemic made workplaces into a laboratory for democratic living-the key places where most Americans are learning effective political strategies and how to think about the common good. Exploring the explicit and unspoken ways we are governed (and govern others) at work, this provocative book shows how the workplace can teach us to be democratic citizens"--
Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico. Adapting Gender offers a cogent introduction to Mexicos film industry, the history of womens filmmaking in Mexico, a new approach to adaptation as a potential feminist strategy, and a cultural history of generational changes in Mexico.Ilana Dann Luna examines how adapted films have the potential to subvert not only the intentions of the source text, but how they can also interrupt the hegemony of gender stereotypes in a broader socio-political context. Luna follows the industrial shifts that began with Salinas de Gortaris presidency, which made the long 1990s the precise moment in which subversive filmmakers, particularly women, were able to participate more fully in the industry and portrayed the lived experiences of women and non-gender-conforming men. The analysis focuses on Busi Cortéss El secreto de Romelia (1988), an adaptation of Rosario Castellanoss short novel El viudo Román (1964); Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardáns Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996), an adaptation of Bermans own play, Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1992); Guita Schyfters Novia que te vea (1993), an adaptation of Rosa Nissáns eponymous novel (1992); and Jaime Humberto Hermosillos De noche vienes, Esmeralda (1997), an adaptation of Elena Poniatowskas short story De noche vienes (1979). These adapted texts established a significant alternative to monolithic notions of national (gendered) identity, while critiquing, updating, and even queering, notions of feminism in the Mexican context. Adapting Gender demonstrates Lunas considerable skills as a scholar. She deftly carries out a careful analysis of the literary and cinematic texts, putting them in the context of the evolving publishing and film industries. Written in a lively and engaging style, this is a unique synthesis of the evolution of feminism and the roles women have hadindeed, at times, been limited toin Mexico and what this has meant for their creative output. Niamh Thornton, author of Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film
This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning in current comparative historical sociology, the author also argues the need for a multidimensional approach capable of addressing the part played by religious orientations in shaping the institutional strength and ideological power of religious elites in the historical framework of the Great Traditions.
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